What I wouldn't give for a pause button.
Are any of you familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan? They're the two composers who wrote the Pirates of Penzance amongst many other musicals. Anywho, I was singing a song today when an evesdropper asked me, in a rather intrusive fashion, I might add, where it was from. I responded by reporting that, to the best of my knowledge, it was from the Pirates of Penzance...
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pokes:
Don't ask how I came across this. It's a review from some weird site of an old Chuck Norris movie called The Octagon. Here is an excerpt,
"Most suspense movies fall apart because you are able to predict where the story is going. Being kept on edge is the appeal, hence the name. Director Eric Karson realizes that understanding is the natural enemy of suspense. If the audience has any idea what is going on in the movie, the film is no longer suspenseful. The Octagon is a 103 minute masterpiece of keeping the audience from figuring out anything about the plot, characters, motivations or dialogue.
Chuck Norris stars as a retired martial arts champion named Scott James, a departure from his usual role as a regular guy who by chance is also a martial arts expert. Throughout the film Chuck provides exposition using the time honored narrative technique of echoed whispers. Not only does it make the most basic of plot devices spooky and otherworldly, it makes half of his words unintelligible, keeping the audience gripped in suspense, trying to figure out who a new character is and why Chuck just kicked him in the head."
Ok maybe it's not that funny and yet... it is. Here's the link if you'd like to read the rest of it. So enjoy.
The Octagon movie review
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"Most suspense movies fall apart because you are able to predict where the story is going. Being kept on edge is the appeal, hence the name. Director Eric Karson realizes that understanding is the natural enemy of suspense. If the audience has any idea what is going on in the movie, the film is no longer suspenseful. The Octagon is a 103 minute masterpiece of keeping the audience from figuring out anything about the plot, characters, motivations or dialogue.
Chuck Norris stars as a retired martial arts champion named Scott James, a departure from his usual role as a regular guy who by chance is also a martial arts expert. Throughout the film Chuck provides exposition using the time honored narrative technique of echoed whispers. Not only does it make the most basic of plot devices spooky and otherworldly, it makes half of his words unintelligible, keeping the audience gripped in suspense, trying to figure out who a new character is and why Chuck just kicked him in the head."
Ok maybe it's not that funny and yet... it is. Here's the link if you'd like to read the rest of it. So enjoy.
The Octagon movie review
[Edited on Sep 24, 2004 12:59AM]
obsidity:
yup
Pirates all right.
I figured that's what the song was when you said you had to memorize it for acting class.
There is a great video of it with Kevin Kline as the Pirate king.
I'm still trying to write my reply....
Pirates all right.
I figured that's what the song was when you said you had to memorize it for acting class.
There is a great video of it with Kevin Kline as the Pirate king.
I'm still trying to write my reply....
The private school I attended from grade 6 until 3 weeks before grad has invited me to attend a 5year reunion. I would have thought expelling someone, especially in the underhanded fashion they did, meant the end for this school and I but apparently not. No, actually, they expect me to attend a $50 dinner where they'll have the chance to confirm that, yes their...
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marigold:
such flattering words, and i made your favorites! ::does a dance:: thank you kindly, sir. ^^
private school never did anything good for anybody. well, except for put you a few years ahead of those in public schools. but everything else they stunt you in doesn't quite make up for the injustice.
p.s. i love your exploding dog user pic.
private school never did anything good for anybody. well, except for put you a few years ahead of those in public schools. but everything else they stunt you in doesn't quite make up for the injustice.
p.s. i love your exploding dog user pic.
marigold:
bjrk isn't in any band. she's just a fan of collaborating with other musicians. she beats the pants off of matmos any day.
I'm becoming a total introvert and oddly enough, it doesn't bother me at all.
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pokes:
Why do directors make movies where the plot is largely affected by random, implausible, or unforseeable occurances? Do you want me to hate you and your movie? I am saddened to realize that the state of movies in the western world has deteriorated to the point where appealing to the lowest common denominator, through predictable formulas, is common place. When I hear critics herald hollywood garbage as one of the years ten best, especially when it's the first half of the year in which they do so, I can't help but be reminded that seldom does a year pass in which hollywood releases ten decent movies. Truly fewer and further between then ever before.
OK i deserve it for watching the tv.
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OK i deserve it for watching the tv.
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sunnysunny:
why should it bother you? and stop watching tv, last episode of bb5 tonight and i swear im done 
Today I used eenie-meenie-miney-moe to decide who's birthday party I would attend. Sorry Tina.
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jewcy:
i use eenie-meenie-miney-moe to decide everything. 
angelvanilla:
Great talking to you yesturday... if you wana chill you know how get a hold of me. 
Buying a CD for someone's birthday is kind of like buying yourself a burnt copy of a cd and getting a free birthday gift. And should let's say, for the sake of it, someone bestows upon you the task of buying a mutual friend of yours a CD-gift for them aswell because they "don't know what he'd like" , it'd technically be like buying a...
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short on appreciation and motivation as of late. recklessly emotional. i feel not as though i should.
naiad_:
ditto.
mitsukai:
I 'preciate you.
i miss childhood
I found my old Saul Williams album today while cleaning under my bed. In so much as I had actually concluded that someone had stolen it, it felt great. Mind you, why did I assume someone had taken it? Nothing quite both as humbling and enjoyable as discovering something you'd presumed a casualty of friendship was in fact simply tucked away.
sharona1881:
i think my favorite book from when i was a kid is "cloudy witha chance of meatballs" - ana amazing story about a town where all the food comes from the sky.
katy and the big snow and
mike mulligan and his steam shovel are also two of my favorites... i love all books tho - its so hard to choose... i teach preschool and i love owning kid books - im always buying more and more...
katy and the big snow and
mike mulligan and his steam shovel are also two of my favorites... i love all books tho - its so hard to choose... i teach preschool and i love owning kid books - im always buying more and more...
freakchef:
I think that all the time but I look at it like "I hope they are enjoying it more then I would"
Someone smoked my car today and totalled my left front end. As to who is going to be at fault, no ideas. I pulled out but he was speeding, not to mention acting blind. He had the passenger and therefore the witness whereas I have no witness and merely commons sense on my side. Why do I think I'm fucked?
cambria:
aww fuckin a that sucks!!
i dont know how someone can do that.
i dont know how someone can do that.
sharona1881:
im sorry
im sorry